Twin Valley High School’s Organ and Tissue Donation Awareness Team sponsored various activities throughout the day on Friday, April 17 educating students about Organ Tissue Donation.
The student led classroom organ and tissue donation education was for National Donate Life Blue & Green Day to raise awareness about organ and tissue donation.
The purpose of the day’s activities was “to educate students about the importance of organ and tissue donation,” said Twin Valley High School’s certified school nurse Alice Uhrich MSN RN NCSN. “Classroom education was given to students by students who are in the school Organ and Tissue Donation Education Team.”
The Organ and Tissue Donation Awareness Team, consisting of students, lead this program for grades 9 to 12,
Uhrich hopes students gain an education about organ and tissue donation. She hopes they understand the importance of making a donation and hopes to dispell myths associated with organ tissue donation. The program shared stories regarding how organ and tissue donation has saved and enhanced lives and also shared experiences from grant supported field trips to the Philadelphia Gift of Life and also to the Musculoskeletal Transplantation Foundation (MTF).
“We want them to understand why it is important to give this gift once they or a loved one have passed on. This is the next generation of leaders and we need to educate them to be leaders who care for everyone not just themselves or their personal interests,” said Uhrich.
